On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 03:08:59AM -0800, Ron wrote:
: > +Although most rational implementations normalize or "reduce" fractions
: > +to their smallest representation immediately through a gcd algorithm,
: > +Perl allows a rational datatype to do so lazily at need, such as
: > +whenever the denomin
> +Although most rational implementations normalize or "reduce" fractions
> +to their smallest representation immediately through a gcd algorithm,
> +Perl allows a rational datatype to do so lazily at need, such as
> +whenever the denominator would run out of precision, but avoid the
> +overhead ot